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title: Then he met his pet hog, Aloi-puaa, and stopped for a moment to salu… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he met his pet hog, Aloi-puaa, and stopped for a moment to salute it by rubbing noses. Who acts: valley. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and Kaha-wali, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Pele and Kaha-wali, sentence 78

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Then he met his pet hog, Aloi-puaa, and stopped for a moment to salute it by rubbing noses.

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**Who acts:** valley · **What happens:** meet, stop, salute, rub · **To what, where:** pet hog, puaa, noses

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Pele and Kaha-wali. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (valley), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66516:10:78
# text = Then he met his pet hog, Aloi-puaa, and stopped for a moment to salute it by rubbing noses.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	pet	pet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	hog	hog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	Aloi	Aloi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	puaa	puaa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	salute	salute	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
21	rubbing	rub	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
22	noses	nose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | past | valley | valley's pet hog and Aloi puaa |  |  | then |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hog=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **stop** | past | valley *not said here* |  |  |  | moment |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **salute** | to-infinitive | valley *not said here* | puaa |  |  |  |  | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 4 | **rub** | gerund | valley *not said here* | noses |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent nose=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66516 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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